Turkic scholar Varuzhan Geghamyan writes:
"Against the background of the events in Syria, various political circles of Turkey are openly promoting the long-developed plan of forming a new Turkish state in the north of Syria and Iraq.
It is called the "Turkman Republic" and plans to create another territory attached to Turkey on the basis of the Turkoman tribes. As it once did in the Caucasus in the form of Azerbaijan, in Cyprus in the form of "Northern Cyprus", and now it is doing in Iraq and Syria. The Turkoman tribes are committing atrocities in Syria these days. is one of the main active groups. It is the "state territory" on the map.
